The railroads of the United States, in spending approximately three hundred million dollars a year for locomotive fuel, are spending one quarter to one third of it "to kindle, prepare, clean, and maintain fires on grates when locomotives are standing still, drifting, or otherwise not actually at work.
The
students of Christian Science are learning that whatever is needed in the way of literature for the benefit of themselves and the cause is always supplied in due season.
Few
Scripture sayings are more frequently quoted than that of James: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their afflication, and to keep.
Two
seasons in the religious life of the world, Christmas and Easter, should bring to us as Christian Scientists a greater appreciation of the privileges we enjoy.
In
the closing chapter of his wonderful gospel Luke has presented with a historian's genius and a scholar's skill an incident rich in color and hidden meaning.
A clergyman declares that the process of the healing work which Jesus insisted was proof that he came from God, is identical with pagan healing, such as that current in India.
The distinguished lecturer whose discourse was published in Emanu-El under the caption "Judaism and Christian Science," can hardly be said to have adequately or accurately presented the subject of Christian Science.
When Christ Jesus went about Palestine healing all manner of sin and sickness, and declaring, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," the unbelieving Jews, finding it impossible to deny the marvelous works he was accomplishing, said that he had "a devil," or cast out evils "by Beelzebub.
An account of the proceedings of the convention of state health officers reports a physician as saying that Christian Science healers have had insufficient training to enable them to cure diseases.
Throughout
the gospels we find a clear distinction made between law as humanly conceived and expressed, and law as spiritually understood and demonstrated,—law as expressed in Paul's inspired words, "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Since taking up the study of Christian Science and finding that God is Love, I have learned to rejoice in the understanding of God and His relation to man.
Prior to becoming interested in Christian Science I had been a sufferer from lung trouble and had been given up by two of the best known specialists in northern Ohio.
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